Good Ruler Quotes

#1. The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#2. A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Frank Herbert

#3. Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.

S.D. Smith

#4. If you let your heart rule you, you'll have a good ruler by which to measure things. This can be called wisdom.

Art Hochberg

#5. When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, It happened to us naturally.

Laozi

#6. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

Aristotle.

#7. Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Aristotle.

#8. No ruler can make a people good.

George R R Martin

#9. We find a combination of three themes that would recur in the ideology of all successful empires: a dualistic worldview that pits the good of empire against evildoers who oppose it; a doctrine of election that sees the ruler as a divine agent; and a mission to save the world.128

Karen Armstrong

#10. The calm words of the wise are heeded more than the shouts of a ruler over fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good.

Anonymous

#11. I have done many impious things
no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.

Robert Graves

#12. The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Sun Tzu

#13. A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Conn Iggulden

#14. Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

George R R Martin

#15. For it is likely that if a city of good men came to be, there would be a fight over not ruling, just as there is now over ruling; and there it would become manifest that a true ruler really does not naturally consider his own advantage but rather that of the one who is ruled.

Plato

#16. Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don't measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path.

Stella Payton

#17. Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

Charlotte M. Mason

#18. Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Plato

#19. The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him, although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp.

Plato

#20. Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Sun Tzu